Monday, June 12, 2017
In early career interviews with the wonderful Juliet Stevenson, the tale was often regurgitated of how she was working with a children’s theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMFriday, June 9, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis musical revue – which originally flopped on Broadway – features exquisite performances and songs by Hamilton’s creator but still feels quaintly nostalgi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMBea Roberts reworks Madame Bovary for the modern age, while Henri Oguike, Dane Hurst and others bring new works to Kingston’s Rose theatre1 Angels in AmericaThere is something very satisfy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
From Fleabag to Forced Entertainment, with Shakespearean puppet shows, a dance marathon and a love letter to Dolly Parton, here’s a look at some of this year’s fringe highlightsI’m loo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
Liverpool PlayhouseFrom a warehouse rave to a blistering brawl, this production is full of energy and turns Juliet into Julius but the tragedy fails to make an emotional impactThe sad truth …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMMonday, June 5, 2017
Royal Court, LondonDesigner Chloe Lamford’s inventive space for experimental works shakes up the process of making – and seeing – theatreThe Royal Court theatre space the Site is so bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMMid-way through Matt Hartley and Kirsty Housely’s Myth, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Mischief Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon, a comedy about a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMNottingham PlayhouseThis George Orwell adaptation is a superbly handled multimedia speculation on the nature of truthThe Party plays plenty of mind games in George Orwell's novel about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMSunday, June 4, 2017
Tony nominations mark arrival for Sonia Friedman as force on BroadwayIt has been a great week for the Brits on Broadway, but in the jubilation over the seven Tony nominations for Alan Bennet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05AMSoho theatre, London Stephen Jackson’s zany musical comedy poses uncomfortable questions for little Englanders as it veers between hilarity and tragedyEddie (Joe Dixon) is 18 stone of mise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFriday, June 2, 2017
Home, Manchester Janet Suzman’s dignified performance as a woman mourning a little girl becomes unbearably poignant in a Manchester still reeling from the loss of its own childrenIn a Manc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterThis convincing modern-day staging strips away the 19th-century trappings to reveal a story as relevant as ever‘Love is a dark and shifty creature. We cannot all …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMGary Owen and Rachel O’Riordan tackle morality via a murderous game, while a double bill from Angelin Preljocaj and Crystal Pite comes to London1 KillologySometimes a playwright-and-direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:05AMThursday, June 1, 2017
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Hugh Whitemore’s witty but dull homage to the quintessentially English poet lacks the cleverness and drama of his Stevie Smith play“Arbitrary and irreleva…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThis revival of Leonard Bernstein’s frothy shore-leave romp is as delicious as ice-cream on a hot summer’s dayFrom Strictly Ballroom to An America…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMSunday, May 28, 2017
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonA funny encounter in the shadow of the Large Hadron Collider and a fractious dinner party feature in a double bill at the RSC’s Mischief festivalThe gro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMFriday, May 26, 2017
Albany, LondonInspired by testimony from refugees, aid workers and journalists, Rob Johnston’s drama homes in on the streets of AleppoIt took thousands of years to build Aleppo and only a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMRichard Twyman revives Shakespeare with style, Ontroerend Goed explore feminism and Akram Khan looks at the past through Bangladesh and Britain1 OthelloRichard Twyman’s revival is a real c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Underbelly festival, London Flip FabriQue’s circus skills dazzle as they deliver 75 minutes of pleasure but the show’s sole female performer is reduced to playing a stereotypical roleCir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
Hampstead Downstairs, LondonMatt Hartley’s play about friends caught up in the London housing crisis laces comedy with some tough philosophisingThe streets of London are supposedly paved w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSouthbank Centre, LondonSiddhartha Bose’s multi-generational epic has grand ambitions and a laudable cast but is hamstrung by a meandering plotAfter 70 years of independence, how far has I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, May 19, 2017
Brighton festival hosts the offbeat retelling of a Cornish legend, while Mark Morris premieres a work set to songs from the Beatles’ album1 Tristan & YseultBrighton festival hosts the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMMonday, May 15, 2017
Old Red Lion, London An oil-rig worker exiled in Aberdeen comes to terms with parental responsibility in Mark Weinman’s odd-couple playJames (Scott Arthur) has exiled himself from his Wels…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMFriday, May 12, 2017
Bristol Old VicWriter Chino Odimba and director George Mann meld ancient and new in an admirable production with first-rate performances The Medea we know so well is the Euripides version, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMTessa Peake-Jones and Andrew French excel in a tragicomedy about lost love, while Sadler’s Wells hosts a triple bill from the celebrated dance company1 While We’re HereCarol and Eddie ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMThursday, May 11, 2017
Audiences are increasingly fed up about bad behaviour in the theatre – and they are taking the law into their own handsKevin Williamson's account of his vigilante action against a woman pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
Gate, London A young Cuban gets an education in race, protest and betrayal from the fugitive Assata Shakur in Kalungi Ssebandeke’s imagined encounter‘Assata taught me” was the legend t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMMonday, May 8, 2017
Arcola, LondonAlexandra Badea’s fervent, over-simplistic drama is an intertwining set of tales about the victims of globalisation, from Senegal to ShanghaiA Shanghai factory worker (Rebecc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMYoung Vic, LondonPhelim McDermott thrusts disability into the spotlight and explores the dark heart of the famous fairytaleMat Fraser is discussing his disability. Assured it was safe, his m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMSunday, May 7, 2017
Brighton festivalA meditative, site-specific piece about maritime lives loses its way as it takes the audience out on a pleasure cruise at duskFive short blasts on a whistle is the maritime …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFriday, May 5, 2017
Catch 1927’s fable about our over-reliance on machines and explore the best of dance, as curated by Kate Tempest. Plus: Every Brilliant Thing and Voodoo1 GolemFew companies have the all-ro…
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